Summary

The primary value of writing distributed applications using RMI is to centrally locate the business logic and provide access through thin clients . This model is especially important with enterprise applications. This is why RMI is the enabling technology for Enterprise Java Beans. The servlet or applet needs only the remote interface to communicate with the remote object, which is the EJB. This greatly simplifies the clients and allows them to operate using far fewer resources. Vendors of application servers have implemented extensions to RMI. For example, the WebLogic RMI over IIOP enables CORBA clients' access to Enterprise Java Beans.